1675 - Formed as Vane's Regiment in Dutch Service1685 - Taken on English Establishment1751 - Titled as 6th Foot1782 - Titled as 6th (1st Warwickshire) Foot1832 - 6th (Royal Warwickshire) Foot1881 - Became "the Royal Warwickshire Regiment"1963 - Changed to Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers1968 - Merged with other Fusiliers to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

VC's (as the Warwickshires) = 6

Of the many Battle Honours, 2 stand out."Pyranees" where the Warwickshire took a lone charge on the Franch Lines. Of this, Wellington said "The most gallant and the finest thing I have ever witnessed"."Normandy Landings" (the most prominent honour on the colours). In memory of the high losses in the assault on the German stronghold at Libissey.

In Dutch service, Vanes regiment retained the St George and the Dragon badge after other British Regiments changed to the English Rose.

During WW1, of the 30 Warwickshire Battalions raised, 3 were Birmingham Battallions. the 14th, 15th & 16th. These were renumbered as the 1st, 2nd & 3rd City of Birmingham Battalions AKA "The Birmingham Pals"

The Mascot,"Bobby" was adopted as the Mascot for the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

The Fusiliers chose April 23rd as it's Anniversary Day this was the Date in 1968 that the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was formed but it also reflects the earlier Warwickshire's Duth link and the badge of the Northumberland Fusiliers.

In 1782 the regiment was designated as the 24th County of Warwickshire Regiment (2nd Warwickshire). No permanent recruiting depot was established so they had to recruit by travelling round the county. This was done mainly in the South and West of the county with more emphasis on the West. This drew in a lot of lads from Worcestershire, Herefordshire and the Borders.1873 came the first recruiting depot set up at Brecon. This was done due to the ease with which they could recruit the Welsh farm labourers and by 1879 (Zulu Wars) only about 8% of the regiment were Warwickshire lads.At the Battle of Rorke's Drift, only 2 soldiers present were born in Warwickshire even though the regiment was still the 2nd Wark's.

11887.jpg - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)Belt Buckle 1879

Prior to 1881, 10 VC's were won, 7 of those at Rorke's Drift and although the South Wales Borderers claim ownership of these with pride they were in fact all Warwickshire Awards.

This refers to the ever changing badge of the 24th Foot. (I will cover this in the Naval and Military Badges thread) but the basis of it is that in 1802 the regiment were awarded the Sphinx to be added to their cap badge for actions in Egypt 1801 but throughout their history it kept dissapearing and returning to the constant confusion of the Regiment.

I thought this would be the most appropiate place to post this.. A new channel has started today on Virginmedia,channel 244 called Forces TV. I presume it will be about all aspects of the forces, I have only watched one programme so far, and I found it fascinating. It was about the use of artificial limbs from WW1 to the present day, and what they went through in the early days, from cheap sticks to the present state of the art limbs costing £40,000 plus. I'll keep my eye on this channel.

"enythink thiT ken Go rong willl." — Morfy's law

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of beer.

The South African War was the Second Boer War 1899 to 1902. To have received the Kings and Queens South African Medal he would have had to have been there in 1902 and have served at least 18 months on active servie.